Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

ExoClick's Business Intelligence department has been busy crunching numbers and we have some interesting traffic insights for Q1 2018. The focus of these statistics are ExoClick's Native advertising and In-stream video ad formats. Native advertising statistics Q1 2018 1.The top 5 GEOs serving Native impressions were: In fact the USA is the biggest market for Native ads with predictions from eMarketer stating that this year 58.3% of US digital display...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

ExoClick, the innovative ad company, is proud to sponsor Global Dating Insights 2018 edition of The Power Book. The Power Book lists the influencers and movers and shakers that have shaped the online dating industry over the course of the year. This fourth edition features a host of niche brands and innovators alongside the big names, and pays special attention to those dating executives who have moved with the times...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

According to eMarketer programmatic ad spend in Germany is set to reach $1.59 billion in 2018. That’s up 29.7% compared to 2017 and by 2019 programmatic investment is expected to grow to $1.83 billion. Additionally, mobile programmatic ads are more popular with marketeers than desktop, which has led to mobile programmatic accounting for 59.1% of total mobile display ad spending in 2018, or $939.9 million.
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

Data gathered from analysing billions of impressions served from 1 July to 30 September 30 2017 shows that tablet ad impressions drove 1.13% click-through rates. That figure is the highest of any device in many different verticals including automotive, consumer goods, financial, food, drink, home, retail, technology, travel and utilities. The data, complied by Drawbridge in their Q3 2017 Cross-Device Advertising Benchmark Report, should make marketeers rethink their strategy when...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

According to data captured by comScore, in March 2017 9.3 million (24.9%) of the country’s 37.3 million internet users accessed the internet exclusively via smartphone or tablet in March. By comparison, 9.1 million (24.3%) did so solely from a desktop or laptop computer. Just over half (51%) of Italy’s internet users employed both mobile and desktop devices to go online during the month, up 4 percentage points from the 47%...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

At the end of 2017 global mobile advertising spend is predicted to hit $143.5 billion. With such a large spend which is double the amount spent in 2015 ($71.8 billion), it is important for mobile advertisers to make their ads effective. Well help is at hand with a recent study from On Device Research who carried out an analysis of 200 mobile advertising effectiveness studies. Analysing display ads they found...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

According to a new eMarketer report, US native digital display ad spending is estimated to increase by 36.2% to $22.09 billion in 2017. That means it will make up almost 53% of all display ad expenditure in the US in 2017. The predictions are split into social native and non social native. While social takes up the biggest chunk, non social native is also expected to rise by 43% from...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

Mobile internet in China has now pushed through the 50% threshold, according to the 39th China Internet Development Statistics Report, complied by the Chinese government agency responsible for the internet. As of December 2016, China had 731 million internet users. That figure represents 53.2 percent of China’s population, meaning that it is almost on par with the population of Europe: 743 million people. But, perhaps more impressively, 95 percent of...
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

For the first time more users are accessing the internet from mobile devices than from desktop computers. That is according to internet monitoring firm StatCounter. The combined traffic from mobile and tablet devices tipped the balance at 51.2 % versus 48.7% for desktop access. In emerging markets such as India, mobile is by far the preferred way to access the internet with a staggering 75% of users using mobile only....
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Giles Hirst — Head of Communication

British consumers' obsession with their mobile devices has been capitalised upon by marketeers and their digital ad spend. According to PWC and IAB, for the first time in the first half of 2016, UK figures show that more digital display budget was being spent on mobile (£802m) than on PC and tablet (£762m). The figures also revealed that overall digital ad spending is up 16%, with mobile digital ad spend...
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